[SydPhil] [REMINDER] 4 DAYS TO GO - APRA KEYNOTE: PETER FORREST 'SCIENCE AND THE PROBLEM OF FAITH COMMITMENT'

[Nathan Everson]

KEYNOTE: PETER FORREST 'SCIENCE AND THE PROBLEM OF FAITH COMMITMENT'
WHERE: University of Sydney,
WHEN: Sunday June 23, 10:00am-11:20am
COST: Full Conference Fee (includes symposium): Waged $260.00 / 
full-time student or unwaged $150.00
            Day Fee (does not include symposium): Waged $150.00 / 
full-time student or unwaged $90.00

Abstract:
I shall consider four ways in which science and religion might be 
opposed: between near
naked science and fundamentalism; between religion and strident 
naturalism; as thesis
and antithesis; and between science and the act of faith. I shall be 
dismissive of the first
two, say a little about the third, which I find intellectually 
stimulating, and then
concentrate on the fourth, which I consider most pressing, and which 
gives my paper its
title. My aim is twofold. First I would like to find out just where the 
opposition lies, and
welcome further suggestions. Second I take the problem posed by the 
fourth kind of
opposition to be solved by following Newman rather than Locke in the 
assessment of
probable reasoning.

ABOUT PETER FORREST:
Peter's chief research interests are in the areas of Philosophy of 
Science and Philosophy
of Religion. In spite of some rather obvious differences between Science 
and Religion, he
holds that, in both cases, understanding is the guide to truth. Two of 
his five books, God
without the Supernatural, and Developmental Theism, are part of the 
apparently old-fashioned
project of apologetics, that is, showing how religious beliefs in 
general, and
Christianity in particular, can meet the appropriate intellectual standards.